Argh no Duchene or Landeskog or O'Reilly base card yet they're doing one for PA Parenteau.

UD usually release cards for the same retired players over and over again but nice to see that they're putting one out for Howie Morenz.

12-05-2012, 02:13 AM

87sluggo

WHY ARE THEY STILL RELEASING MORE STUFF??????????????

Show me a card with Jason Garrison in a Canucks jersey, I will buy that product. Til then, that's IT.

12-05-2012, 03:29 AM

RGM81

Should be interesting to see how well-received Black Diamond will be this year with all of the new autograph parallels.

12-05-2012, 03:45 AM

eberleclone

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sportfreund

Argh no Duchene or Landeskog or O'Reilly base card yet they're doing one for PA Parenteau.

UD usually release cards for the same retired players over and over again but nice to see that they're putting one out for Howie Morenz.

Duchene is listed as a double diamond and Landeskog as a Triple diamond

12-05-2012, 06:03 AM

mingus_md

One strange thing I noticed about this checklist is just like Artifacts, there is no Henrik Lundqvist base card. Given how well he played last year and the number of Lundqvist collectors out there, I find this a little odd.

12-05-2012, 10:41 AM

Mphoenix

Quote:

Originally Posted by mingus_md

One strange thing I noticed about this checklist is just like Artifacts, there is no Henrik Lundqvist base card. Given how well he played last year and the number of Lundqvist collectors out there, I find this a little odd.

At least he has an all-star quad diamond, my PC guy James Reimer has no cards at all in this year's edition despite all the Leafs collectors around. Meanwhile, guys like Niklas Backstrom and Jacob Markstrom who play for marginal teams have TWO base cards (both single and double diamond). Strange are the ways of UD...

12-05-2012, 11:40 AM

adamslogik

Oh GREAT.

They choose the put BOTH Patrick Roy All time great championship ring cards (Montreal and Colorado) into the product THIS year instead of last, with the UGLY design instead of the great one.

GRRRRRR!!!!!

12-05-2012, 12:15 PM

flemingc04

Upper Deck has really been cutting back on Kurri and Fuhr lately. No Fuhr autos in this set and only a /10 and 1/1 auto for Kurri. Nice to see they included Ranford as well. It is interesting to see more hits of auto parallels though.

12-05-2012, 12:22 PM

flopfish

Some quick hits from what I've done:

Assuming Ice Rookies 1 per hobby box, there are 14,779 rookies in total, which, I don't know if it's just me, but it seems like an odd number for lack of a better term. 12 box cases... You see where I'm going. It's 1231.58 cases produced then... Somewhat strange.

In comparison to last year, however, they had 20,974 Ice Rookies. At 1 per box, there are 6,195 fewer rookies... Less Ice Rookies means less boxes, and by the quick numbers, it's a significant amount. So the product is more short printed, but how does it affect the pulls?

2.0/100 boxes this year will have an /99 Rookie, where as last year 2.4/100 boxes had an /99 rookie. So your odds of pulling an /99 have slightly decreased.

Let's move on to the Base Parallel Autos:
157 Total Emerald Autos * 10 = 1570
159 Total Sapphire Autos * 1 = 159
Total base parallel autos = 1729
This pretty much means there will be at least one parallel auto per case, if not more. On top of that you still have additional hits:
-25000 Rubies = 1.70 Rubies per box, 20 per case
-1021 Non-Auto'd Emeralds (930) and Non-Auto Sapphires (91) = 6.9 per 100 boxes, or a 83% chance of getting one in a case

According to the initial product sheets, the Team Canada Jersey Autos are /10, so it'll be interesting to see if they are out of 5 or 10, but I'm going with the initial product sheet on those:
405 total GU Autos, ~1 per 3 cases.

On top of the fact that the Gemography checklist is probably the best it's been (WHY Drayson Bowman still...) the product is shaping up to be quite loaded... Yes, I said that... Long story short, lack of rookies = less rookies to put in = less boxes = better quality boxes.